Arcane deployment considerations

[Thomas Heller]

Cameron Laird wrote:
> In article <mailman.1794.1139778796.27775.python-list at python.org>,
> Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net> wrote:
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>> Usually the bundle=1 option in py2exe can create a single file exe, but it also
>> allows to have a separate shared library.zip file, which is useful if
>> you need more than
>> one exe-file.  With python 2.4, MSVCR71.dll is still required and not
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> For some of our projects, we provide a single executable, which
> takes a command-line argument (or, rarely, environment variable)
> to tell the executable whether to come up as server or client,
> or GUI or command-line version, or ...  The result is that, even
> for an architecturally-sophisticated development, the end-user
> experiences a unitary delivery; he has just one file to install,
> remove, archive, ...  

Ok, so you're down to about 0.2 files per application ;-)

Thomas